Bernie and Hillary Don't Know How to Ride the Subway, Just Like You

More than 5.5 million people ride the New York City Subway System every day. Nearly 2 billion people go through the turnstiles every year, according to the MTA. Many of these are brave people who are going into work hungover. These are kids, moms, dads, Peter Dinklage, perverts, the homeless, and, quite possibly, voters! But, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are not among these 2 billion human souls. Every day of the year, the two most prominent Democrats in our country are not crammed into the sweaty back of a stranger, rumbling through a filthy tunnel toward a dead end job or tiny apartment. Sanders and Clinton are not one of us. They should not pretend to be.

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This is very obvious in the above video, where Clinton attempts to swipe through a turnstile. Her swiping form is totally off. It takes her five tries. During those five tries, a woman is attempting to get through behind her. That woman doesn't see former First Lady, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. That woman sees some tourist cutting off her entrance into the station, possibly causing her to miss the 4 train. It's a perfect metaphor. The worst part is, before failing miserably, she even mocked Sanders' gaff from last week, where he mistakenly thought the MTA still used tokens. "I think it was my first term when we changed from tokens to MetroCards," Clinton said.

Then there's Sanders, who we wanted so badly to believe has never taken anything but public transportation in his life. He made the aforementioned mistake of saying, "What do you mean, 'How do you ride the subway these days?' You get a token and you get on." Oof. Wrong. Just ask Clinton about the MetroCard. Sanders did at one time take the subway, but obviously not since tokens were phased out in 2003.